The New Paper, 6 December 2009

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    • 68 1 EXCLUSIVE: Kym Ng finally opens up on 16-year secret My mystery hubby is... 2 Winner of Reporting Breaking News Award '09 Society of Publishers in Asia TIGER WOODS SCANDAL EXPOSED: Sexcapades on the PGA tour Never mind the birdies, where are the CHICKS? 6 Readers react to ‘pig’ comment Who
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    • 948 2/3  -  EXCLUSIVE REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg A16-YEARsecretloveaffairisnolongersecret.Yes,KymNgismarried.Yes,herhusbandexists.Andyes,hedoes,indeed,speak–andwell,too. WhereotherlocalTVpersonalitieshaveverypublic love lives, with grand weddings, this popular ac-tress-host has always been fiercely private about the maninherlife. He has never been photographed; he has never spokentothemedia.Andshehasneverrevealedmore thanafewdetailsabouttheirrelationship,orherman. Allthatchangedlastweek. She opened up for the
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    • 1023 4  -  Parentsmoveoutand aresoafraidtheydon’t even bring her food REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg YOU’REdownwith fever andneedten-der-loving care. Who do you turn to? Family, of course. Not so for Laura Lee. The 15-year-old student has been left alone to battle the H1N1 virus at home
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    • News Tiger Woods Scandal
      • 753 6/7 US report unveils secret world of pro golfers THEsqueaky-cleanTigerWoodsishis-tory.Butforfellow-golfersintheProfes-sional Golfers Association of America (PGA) tour, the sexcapades he has now become infamousfor,aremerelyparforthecourse. Ithappensallthetime,everywhere. There aren’t many top golfers who haven’t done what the world’s best golfer hasbeendoingforyears. The secret underworld of professional golfers is
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      • 631 6/7 SO, what’s the count of Tiger Woods’ women? Looks like it’s becom- ing difficult to keep track. Latest reports saytheworld’sNo1golf- er had five more flings, with one of them being a “hot” British television presenter. The presenter, who was unmarried at
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      • 216 6/7 WEREother golfers awareofTiger Woods’ infidelity? Oris it a recent phenomenon? Or did he do a great job of keeping it under wraps? London’sIndependent reports thatthe wordhasbeen circulating for years. The report quoted a journalist who knew Woods as saying that at the US Open
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      • 497 8 Suspected lovers bear similar physical features LONG legs, long hair, hard faces and a whiff of trailer park distinguishing characteristics of the women Tiger Woods is alleged to have slept with. The suspected lovers bear a strong resemblance to nearlyallthe“otherwomen”whomakenews. The mistresses of powerful men
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      • 1648 10/11 Readers were stirred by a column by journalist Joanne Soh, which lay the blame for cheating on spouses solely on men FROM READER AL CHINE Tsk tsk. If that statement is correct, I guess it is fair to say all women are bitches.
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      • 323 10/11  -  STREET TALK COMMENT: MELVIN SINGH melvin@sph.com.sg IN SUPPORT of my colleague, Joanne Soh, I will say this allmenarepigs. NowI don’t meanpigsin the metaphorical sense. But pig, as in the animal. See, men, or pigs, have an inert need to propagate. You know,
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    • 492 12 She took up challenge of studying for master’scoursehere SHEwas sosureshe wanted totake thismaster’s degree programme she paid for it all on her own. It cost Chinese national Wu Li Nan $15,000 from her savings,butshe hasnoregrets. “It’sa sacrifice,but I knowit willbe beneficial tomy future,”she
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    • 725 13  -  Customer’sclaimsdisputedbyshopmanager REPORT: HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg HIS two 5-cent coins were rejected, so he had to use a $1,000 note to pay for a $1.20 packet of teh tarik (tea), claims one disgruntled customer at a prata shop.
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    • 758 14 / 15  -  Israeli combat expert shows how to fight with bare hands REPORT: HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg INtheworldofmartialarts,evenahandshakecanbeatest.Singaporean Teo Yew Chye, 50, learnt this the hard way three years ago when he flew to Japan to train underIsraelimartialartsmasterAviNardia,48. Whentheyshookhandsforthefirsttime,MrNardia broke Mr Teo’s thumb, using only the pressure
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    • 311 14 / 15  -  Ho Lian-Yi NEVER shake hands with a smiling Israeli commando. That was one lesson Mr Teo Yew Chye brought home after his bone-crunching first encounter with his sensei Avi Nardia. Lucky for me, Mr Nardia’s right thumb and palm were still bandaged after sur- gery
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    • 874 16 / 17  -  Sleeper hit Rosy Business wins 6 TVB awards REPORT: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg IN the end, the royal family was no match for the aristocratic merchants. Hong Kong TV station TVB had pushed its annual awards show back by two weeks to accommodate Beyond The Realm Of
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    • 976 18 / 19  -  Mistakenfordeadmanfoundin TeckWhyemosque,S’porean stunsfriendswhenhe‘reappears’ atusual‘haunts’ ‘BACKFROMTHEDEAD’ #1 REPORT: HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg THEYlookedathimasifthey’dseenaghost.Theywere horrified. Some even ran away at the sight ofhim. Otherswouldpinchandpokehim. Thereason:Theythoughthewasdead. Mr Putiyan Soeri (below), 45, a fork lift driver, was widelybelievedtobedeadwhensomeonehadwronglyidentifiedabodyfoundnearwhereheslept. “PeoplethoughtIhadcome backfromthegrave to haunt them. I had a
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    • 182 18 / 19 Vietnamwidowerdugupherremainsfora‘hug’ ‘BACKFROMTHEDEAD’ #2 AVIETNAMESE man dug up hiswife’s corpseand slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed, an online newspaper reported on Thursday. The 55-year-old man from the central province ofQuang Namopened up hiswife’s grave(below) in
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    • 461 20 EmployerstryingtocopewithIndonesian ban on maids working in Malaysia MAID agencies in Malaysia have been scrambling since June. That was when the Indonesian government banned its citizens from working in Malaysia as maids, in the wake of several horrific maid abuse cases. As a
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    • 318 20 SOME things are best done in private. But matters are not so simple for the male students of Shin Kuang Junior High School in Taichung, Taiwan. Their school building is sorely lacking in toilet cubiclesin the boys’ toilets. There areonly 25 toiletcubicles
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    • 352 21 21 HE WAS on his way home from school when he fell off a crowded train in Mumbai, India. Bharat Kumar, 17, lay on the trackside for more than 14 hours as no one came forward to help him. No one in
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    • 296 21 HE WAS a church elder found guilty of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl. A UK court even sentenced John William McConaghy to21/2 years’ jail. But the judge suspended the sentence. Why? Because at 190kg, McConaghy, 66, is too fat to go to
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    • 34 6/7 MORE REPORTS Hooked by the same look? PAGE 8 If men are pigs... PAGE 10 Tiger should have done a Kobe/ PAGE23 Crazy to cheat on these babes?/ PAGE24 Father figure no more/ PAGE32
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  • News Snapshot
    • 298 22 Labourmovement’sU-Care fundhelps record 175,000workers THE number of handouts given by the labour movement’s U-Care fund this year topped the annual average of 60,000 to 80,000 handouts. A record number of more than 175,000 workers and their families received $23 million worth of handouts from NTUC.
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    • Article, Illustration
      39 22 TRADE-IN:LosAngeles Sheriff’s Deputy JasonMolina loading riflesintoa policecar duringa “GunFor GiftCard” exchange event on Friday. The events, held twice a year just before Mother’sDay andChristmas,offer aUS$100 ($140)gift voucher in exchange for a working rifle or handgun. PICTURE: AFP
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    • 101 22 RUSSIAN authorities yesterday said they had arrested the owner and manager of the Lame Horse nightclub in Ural, Perm. A fire sparked off by indoor fireworks killed at least 109 people and injured dozens on Friday night, reported AFP. About 230 people
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    • 101 22 THE side effects of the H1N1 vaccine are no different from those of seasonal flu vaccines. An extensive review of the H1N1 vaccine’s effects on 438,376 people have found it to be safe. Dr Thomas R Frieden, the director of
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    • 93 22 MALAYSIA’S Chief Justice Zaki Azmi has been pushing to clear the backlog of cases. His move has compromised the judiciary’s independence, alleged a number of senior lawyers. Constitutional expert Tommy Thomas has submitted a motion, which challenges the chief justice’s extreme order
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    • 102 22 THE Singapore Red Cross and the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre yesterday launched a book about the efforts to rebuild lives devastated by the tsunami. The Tidal Wave Asia Fund was also officially closed on International Volunteer Day yesterday, reported Channel NewsAsia. Singaporeans
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous

  • News Exchange
    • 330 23  -  THE BUZZ COMMENT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg TIGER,nowCheetah,shouldhavecomeclean.From the get-go, the world’s no 1 golfer should have ’fessed up, “done a Dave”, and followed in thefootstepsoftheolderandwiserAmericantalkshow hostDavidLetterman. Instead of cowering behind gatekeeping lawyers andpublicists,andworse,thebookofPsalmsabouthis “transgressions”. You remember Letterman telling his audience he hasalittlestoryforthem?Headmitted:“Ihavehadsex
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    • 135 23 Weratethepastweek’snews–goodandbad +10 Funds in the CPF Investment Scheme enjoyed an average growth of more than 12 percent in the third quarter, recouping all the losses from earlier in the year. -20 The median income of employed Singapore residents fell by 1.2 percent from last year, to $2,420
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    • 22 23 “Byebye, ChickenMan.” –A2-year-oldboybiddingfarewellto a KFC delivery man “Someoftheguys look prettier than the girls.” –Awomancommentingonagroupof cosplay fans in costume
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    • 15 23 WAYS OF DEALING WITH A ROGUE TIGER TNP ILLUSTRATION: SIMON ANG
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    • 680 24/25 Lust and insecurity make men cheat, even if their wives and girlfriends are glamazons, say experts REPORT: SHREEANN MATHAVAN shreeann@sph.com.sg HUGH Grant. Jude Law. Prince Charles. Ashley Cole. What do these famous men and heart-throbs have in common? They have all dated or were
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    • 350 26  -  REPORT: SHREE ANN MATHAVAN shreeann@sph.com.sg Gorgeous woman: Sweetie-pie singer Vivian Chow, 42. Cheating man: Her long-time boyfriend, publisher Joe Ngai, 44 What happened: He was photographed kissing a pretty undergraduate in December last year. The couple broke up shortly after the photographs hit the Hong Kong
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    • Enjoy Fly on the Wall
      • 362 27  -  ‘Uniqueclothing’at313@Somerset REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg NEVER polite to take pot shots at another country’s lingo, but I’m wild-guessing here that “uniqlo” is shortfor “unique clothing”. You’d think Uniqlo is a clothing brand that is without equal a shout out here
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      • Article, Illustration
        140 27  -  What are local celebrities tweeting about this week? JULIANA JUNE RASUL takes a peek. JULIANA JUNE RASUL Blogger Dawn Yang @DawnYang1: So much Tiger news on the telly distractingme fromwork....he’s one big “cheetah”! 987FM Radio DJ Desiree Lai @DesireeLai: Apparently loneliness is contagious. U can catch feelings of
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    • 589 28/29 Our Dating Challenge singles pair up foracheesypizza-makingsession Participants in The Dating Challenge got their hands dirty with flour and raw food during their second group date. The second group date was held at the Clover Way branch of Sarpino’s Pizzeria (www.sarpinos.com.sg). (Six out of the
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    • Enjoy Shopping
      • 673 30  -  aspire)wFac YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg IS IT just me, or do all those flickering lights down Orchard Road and the Christmas carols everywhere make people spend more than usual? Everything inside the shop windows seems to be begging me to take
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    • Enjoy Hed Chef
      • 417 31  -  HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg THESEareperiloustimes.What protection do we have against potential assaults on our waistlines? Yes, that sneaky enemy which takes onanarrayofcleverdisguisesintheform of holiday roasts, cookies, chocolates, candies, ham and other enticing festive fare. Before you know it, those scrump- tious morsels which taste so good
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    • Enjoy Columns
      • 512 32  -  S MURALI FATHER FIGURES muralis@sph.com.sg ANOTHER one bites the dust, eh? And of all people, Tiger Woods. Can you believe it? Over the past week, I have been dumbstruck by newsofWoods’ “transgressions”. Why? Well, because he is such a family man. From his much-publicised relationship with
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      • 409 32  -  S M ONG ACT BLUR smong@sph.com.sg DURING my full-time national service, someone onceaskedmeinEnglish:“Youeatpotato?” What a strange question. I wasn’t even eating anything at the time. My tuber-fixated interrogator repeated the query,insistingonananswer:“Youeatpotato?” Hasn’teveryoneeatenapotatoatleastoncein his or her life? So I said: “Yah,
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 41 31 GET YOUR DOSE OF HOLIDAY CRAZINESS! VINCEVAUGHN MALINAKERMAN KRISTINDAVIS KRISTENBELL (The Wedding Crashers) (The Proposal) (Sex and The City) (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) w > 1 15 nc esism _i i COJP r J X™E www.couplesretreatmovie.co.uk IJJflfMf NC 161 Sexual References NOW SHOWING
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 106 33 SEEING STARS BYKUAH SENG SENG Singapore’smostaccuratefakeastrologer SAGITTARIUS:Yodasaid:“Fearleadsto anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”Youwillskipthemiddlepart this week when a cockroach appears on your steering wheel, causing you to crash into a tree. CAPRICORN Your dance teacher will be the first to point out that you have two left feet,
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 369 34 My Street Think you know Singapore like the back of your hand? Try answering these questions related to our country in our My Street series. Check the answers in this space next Sunday. 1. What is the name of the cinema that used to be at Bedok Interchange? 2. Which
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    • 30 37 Saturday,05 Dec2009 First Second Third 1934 9686 9967 Starters 4421 8083 5056 1614 4211 4433 1710 7991 3117 1822 Consolation 1525 0456 6455 2273 8030 0746 2498 3939 1163 0899
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    • 53 55 THEPOSTMAN READERS’REACTIONS READERS, we want your post-match reactions for these matches (see below). The deadline for the EPL matches listed is 4pm tomorrow. Selected posts will be published in The New Paper. Go to tnppostman.com to post your views or email npsports@sph.com.sg leaving your full name, age, occupation and the
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  • sports
    • 583 56  -  IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg THE CHANT rang out across the pub, as I imagine it did across thousands just like it all over the country. It was started by a fat drunk in a suit who spilled lager over his shoes as he held his arms
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    • Sports Racing
      • 1346 36 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING RACE1 C5 1.15 -1800m(SC) Stakes:RM35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 --0-60 FantasticFortune 57 (34) YSLim*c4 7 (6nzhTonyYeoh-Conqueror) 2 *****1 VeryPowerful 56 (32) IRazif*c4 3 (5agSBTan-HSH) 3 28-953 Concrescence 55.5 (31) OChavez 2 (5nzgPPereira-C'dence/C'fluence) 4 10-308 WinningSmile 54 (28)
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      • 219 37  -  TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg HIS best performance in a dozen starts at Kranji was a3 1 /2-length sixth. Then, he was sent over to Ma- laysia to continue his racing career. The change of environment certainly did Aggressive a world of good. He blossomed.
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      • 594 37 Going: Yielding Race1 C5(LC)1400m 12 INSPIRATION51.5c50.5(201-55) JacksonLow* (12) 10 10 1 (477) 11 SHE'SADARLING53(41-16) YSLim* (1) 3 3 2 (451) Nk 15 SECRETATTIRE52.5c48.5(22-7) YYOon* (7) 7 7 3 (441) 0.5 7 AHAOBAMA54c53(48-13) KTCheng (14) 11 11 4 (465) 0.5 ?Winning stable: ITL. Trainer: V Nathan. Time:
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      • 861 37 RACE 1 1st 11 Trader ($82-$19) 2nd 5 Skytrain ($5) 3rd 4 Jersey Lily ($5) 4th 8 Mustard. EOB $16. Forecast $72. Place forecast $8 (4-5), $33 (4-11), $19 (5-11). Tierce $2767. Trio $120. Quartet No winner ($2058 jackpot carried forward to next race). Scratching: Dane Monarch. RACE
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      • 1410 38 RACE 1 SACRED was restless in the barrier. Trainer HK Tan was advised that a warning had been placed on SACRED regarding his barrier manners and to take steps to improve them. SPARKLE and GOLDEN JAMBHALA were slow to begin. On jumping,
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      • 1063 39 RACE 1 (1,400m) Legend Express (No. 3) has a touch of class about him and will definitely be fitter for a first-up third over 1,200m. Penglai Xianzi (4) has returned an improved runner a fast-finishing winner and a third from his opening
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      • 881 39 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE1 THEHKINTSALEDECEMBERCHALLENGETURF 1400m TIME:1:00 Stakes:HK$1,600,000 NO. HORSENAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 SUPERPEPPER CHYip WCMarwing 127 1 2 FLYINGSUPREME TWLeung BDoyle 121 8 3 LEGENDEXPRESS PFYiu HWLai 121 3 4 PENGLAIXIANZI ASCruz WMLai 121 6 5 JUSTCHILL BKNg GCheyne 121 4 6
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    • Sports SEA Games Football
      • 215 40 / 41 GOLF TAIWAN’S Chan Yih-shin produced a superb back-nine performance to open up a two-stroke lead after the third round of the King’s Cup in Thailand yesterday. Chan romped home in 32 on his way to a five-under-par 67 to lead the US$300,000 ($420,000) Asian Tour event
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      • 134 40 / 41 Reuters SOUTH Korean Yang Yong Eun shrugged off the effects of a severe cold to burst two shots clear of a congested leaderboard in the second round of the Chevron World Challenge on Friday. Yang fired a sparkling seven-under-par 65 on another benign day of sunshine
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      • 96 40 / 41 AFP AUSTRALIA’S Adam Scott moved two strokes clear of compatriot Stuart Appleby as the Australian Open developed into a two-horse race after the third round in Sydney yesterday. Scott has rarely produced his best golf at home and remains winless in Australia since turning professional in
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      • Article, Illustration
        774 40 / 41  -  SINGAPORE 2 (Safuwan Baharudin 7, Shaiful Esah 24) INDONESIA 2 (Stevie Bonsapia 42, Rendy 64) ERNESTLUISanalyseshowSingapore’s Under-23footballersthrewawaya2-0lead toIndonesiaandendedwithadisappointing draw in their opening group game yesterday ERNEST LUIS DISAPPOINTING is the best word to sum up Singapore’s first performance in Laos at the South-east Asia Games football tournament yesterday.
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      • 301 40 / 41 ON THE MATCH YES, WE’RE disappointed. But there’s a consolation that we hung on for the draw. Still, we gave away a two-goal lead. The immaturity showed at this level and composure will only come with more experience. ON THE FIRST INDONESIAN GOAL THAT CRACKED SINGAPORE THIS
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      • 472 40 / 41  -  ERNEST LUIS IF SINGAPORE are to head into their second group game against Myanmar tomorrow afternoon (at 4pm) in a fighting mood, they have to look at the good from their Jekyll and Hyde performance against Indonesia. Because when the Young Lions turn it on, they can get
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      • 90 40 / 41 Wire Services THE SINGAPORE water polo team got off to a good start in Laos, beating Indonesia 14-5 at the National Sports Complex swimming pool in Vientiane. Singapore hope to win their 23rd gold medal in the 25th South-east Asia Games. Champions since 1965, Singa- pore
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    • Sports World Cup Draw
      • 632 42 / 43 AP LANDON Donovan repeated the words, unable to wipe the smile from his face. “Itnever ends,”he said. The American midfielder and England star David Beckham may be forever linked by their tumultuous time together with the Los Angeles Galaxy. And just when they seemed
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      • 401 42 / 43 PA Sport ENGLAND captain John Terry believes the side “can make history” after it was handed a winnable group in the World Cup draw. England will face the US, Algeria and Slovenia in Group C in next year’s competition in South Africa which should see the
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      • 380 42 / 43 PA Sport CRISTIANO Ronaldo has emphasised the importance of hitting the ground running at next summer’s World Cup after Portugal were handed one of the toughest possible draws for the group stages. Portugal, who reached the Finals courtesy of a Play-off win over Bosnia-Herze-govina, must battle
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      • 262 42 / 43 AFP DIDIERDrogba’swish not to face England in the first round of the 2010 World Cup was granted on Friday, but that is where his happiness ended. Ivory Coast, considered the African nation capable of going furthest, drew Brazil, North
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      • 346 42 / 43 AP BRAZIL set out to win their sixth World Cup facing a familiar foe that speaks the same language and two opponents they have never met before. Portugal, Ivory Coast and North Korea are the first three opponents lining up against Dunga’s (right) team at next
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      • 1271 44 / 45 TheNewPaper’sGARYLIMand football analyst TOHARIPAIJAN look at the World Cup Draw and give their assessments. ■GROUPA South Africa (left), Mexico, Uruguay, France JUST when you thought that France are starting to feel bad about what they did to the Republic of Ireland, the smirk is back. They
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      • 826 46 / 47  -  REPORTING FROM CAPE TOWN ANDREW WARSHAW npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a former sports editor of The European and a regular contributor to daily and Sunday national newspapers in the UK. NO EUROPEAN team has ever won the World Cup outside of Europe.
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      • 646 46 / 47  -  GARYLIM answers five burning questions on the minds of football fans following the World Cup Draw GARY LIM ENGLAND got the easy group that they were praying hard for. But it is what lies ahead which should have them worrying. Assuming they finish top of
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        427 48 Last 16 26 Jun Winner A Runner-up B Port Elizabeth 26 Jun Winner C Runner-up D Rustenburg 27 Jun Winner B Runner-up A Johannesburg SC 27 Jun Winner D Runner-up C Bloemfontein 28 Jun Winner E Runner-up F Durban 28 Jun Winner G Runner-up H Johannesburg EP 29 Jun Winner
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    • Sports Football
      • 581 49  -  ALISON RATCLIFFE FOOTBALL FEMME npsports@sph.com.sg HAS THERE has ever been a nuclear physicist who spent his downtime playing with rattles, rearranging his food to make a smiley face and rolling around on the floor kicking and screaming when crossed? If yes, he may wish
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      • 415 49 AFP I DID nothing wrong. Arsene Wenger insisted on Friday that he had no regrets over refusing to shake Manchester City manager Mark Hughes’ hand following Arsenal’s 3-0 Carling Cup loss at Eastlands in midweek. The Frenchman’s failure to observe the traditional courtesy
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    • Sports EPL Betting
      • 297 50 EVERTONvTOTTENHAM(Tonight,Ch27,11.55pm) PA Sport TOTTENHAMHotspurman-ager Harry Redknapp has no idea when Jonathan Woodgatewillbefit again. The 29-year-old centre-back is sidelined from a groin injury, which he also suffered last season, and had travelled to Germanyforan operation in August. But the problem has not gone away despite a recent
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      • 497 50 PA Sport EVERTON’S injurycrisis has reached such proportions that manager David Moyes joked that he was considering playing himself against Tottenham tonight. With Phil Jagielka and Phil Neville still sidelined, the Toffees boss also lost cen-tre-backs Joseph Yobo and Sylvain Distin in the Merseyside Derby
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    • Sports EPL
      • 462 51  -  BY KEN MOSTON Special Correspondent PA Sport NDREYARSHAVIN starred for Arsenal as they returned to winning ways in the Premier League with a comfortable win over Stoke. Arshavin and Aaron Ramsey were on target to give the Gunners a morale-boosting win followinglastweek’s3-0defeatto Chelsea. Arshavin
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      • 190 51  -  BY DAVID COLE Special Correspondent HERMANN HREIDARSSON is eyeingthestartof“something special”afterhisgoalset Portsmouth on their way to a priceless Premier League victory over Burnley at Fratton Park. Defender Hreidarsson fired the South Coast club ahead after 65 minutes, thanks to a brilliant ball from substitute Kanu, while Aruna
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      • 346 52  -  BY PAUL BURBRIDGE Special Correspondent AMESMILNERshowedwhy heisacontenderforEngland’s World Cup squad by inspiring Aston Villa to a comfortable home win over Hull. Milner set up the opening goal for central defender Richard Dunne and scored the second himself before half-time with an exquisite chip. John Carew added
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      • 259 52 A RESURGENT Birmingham produced a rousing secondhalf comeback to win 3-2 and leave frustrated Wigan boss Roberto Martinez frustrated. It is now six matches without defeatforAlexMcLeish’sside who find themselves riding high in an unaccustomed eighth position in the Premier League, and comfortably on course for their
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      • 644 53  -  BLACKBURN0 LIVERPOOL0 COMMENT DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg AS EWOOD PARK drifted to slumberland, Blackburn manager Sam Allardyce was probably wide awake, rubbing his hands in glee. His side had succeeded in boring Liverpool into not finding the net and Allardyce will certainly
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      • 220 53  -  DAVID LEE THEY might as well have taken the day off and the result would still have been the same. The goalless game instantly disqualified all the attacking players from the award. Glen Johnson provided a few electrifying overlapping runs down the right flank
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      • 576 54  -  WESTHAM 0 MAN UNITED 4 (Scholes 45, Gibson 61, Valencia 71, Rooney 72) REPORTING FROM UPTON PARK IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg BATTERED, bruised and reduced to just two recognised defenders, Manchester United are still a force to be reckoned with. You can attribute their
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      • 204 54  -  IAIN MACINTOSH GIANFRANCO Zola’s honeymoon at Upton Park is officially over. He was universally loved in the game before he stepped into management and now he is fighting abuse and catcalls. A chorus of boos greeted his team at the end of the lacklustre
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    • SPORTS ON TV
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        142 55 LIVE TELECASTS EPL Today: FULHAMv SUNDERLAND StarHub TV Ch 22,11pm EVERTONv TOTTENHAM StarHub TV Ch 27,11.55pm Tottenham hotshot Jermain Defoe (right) is currently leading the Premiership scoring charts with 11 goals. Can he add to the tally? CHAMPIONSHIP Today: SCUNTHORPE v COVENTRY StarHubTVCh115, TV 1, 9.10pm SERIEA Today: FIORENTINA
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      • 11 55 CHEVRON WORLD CHALLENGE Tomorrow: DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 26,4.15am
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      • 15 55 DAVIS CUP 2009 FINAL Today: SPAIN v CZECH REPUBLIC (DAY 3) StarHubTV Ch 21,7pm
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      • 527 55 WHAT'S ON BLURBS /RESULTS LOCAL EVENTS 25TH SEA GAMES What: Send-Off for Team Singapore athletes When: Tomorrow, 6.00am Where: Changi Airport Terminal 2 TEAM Singapore athletes from cuesports (9), golf (7), petanque (1), silat (18) and taekwondo (4) leave tomorrow morning to embark on their journey to achieve sporting success
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    • 17 56 EPL: Four-goalcruiseforManUtd–IainMacintoshreportsfromUptonPark.Page54 SEAGAMES: Singaporethrowawaytwo-goalleadagainstIndonesia–ErnestLuisanalyses.Page40 ...AND WE ASSESS THE DRAW: PAGE 44 WORLD CUP DRAW REPORTS/ PAGES 42-48
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